The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide

April 18th, 2008 Filed under Blog on blog

Erick Schonfeld is comparing between blogging and journalism. Erich is one of the four writers at TechCrunch, a top professional blog features on observing and analysing Web startups and the larger tech companies movements. Eric has been a journalist at Times Inc. before he made the move to TechCrunch and became a professional blogger six month ago. In this post, he compares the web1.0 media with blog, the most important invent of web 2.0, by pointing out that successful formula of TechCrunch. The formula can be summarized as Prompt Action + Open Discussion Platform. He describes TechCrunch as a sauce of information as well a filter for sauce. The most significant different between traditional media writing and blogging is that the latter one is more prompt. It will sacrifice some accuracy and deepness for quicker breaking news publishing. And when traditional media maintains its serious and authoratative image, blogs root deeper in ordinary people, it allows the public to debate and to share opinions.

This paragraph may reveals the reason behind the sucess of TechCrunch:

Our philosophy is that it is better to get 70 percent of a story up fast and get the basic facts right than to wait another hour (or a day) to get the remaining 30 percent. We can always update the post or do another one as new information comes in. More often than not, putting up partial information is what leads us to the truth—a source contacts us with more details or adds them directly into comments.

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